Louis Halphen

Louis Sigismond Isaac Halphen(4 February 1880,Paris– 7 October 1950,Paris) was a French medieval specialist and the author of many important books over a long career. He was noteworthy as the editor of a modern edition of the famous classicEinhard's "Vie deCharlemagne"(Paris, 1947), He was also known as being one of the general editors of the monumental seriesPeuples et civilisations.

Louis Halphen was born inParisto mathematicianGeorges Henri Halphen.He married Germaine Weill, the daughter ofMathieu Weill,in 1910, with whom he had two children:Étienneand Geneviève.

Selected published books

• Le comté d'Anjou au XIe siècle,1906
  • review by S Fanning in Speculum, 1985 "...The essential works on Anjou in this period are Louis Halphen, Le comte d'Anjou au XIe siecle (Paris, 1906)JSTOR
• La Conquête romaine(with A Piganiol,& P Sagnac (1926) - Presses universitaires de France
• Charlemagne et l'empire carolingien,1947
  • translated into English asCharlemagne and the Carolingian Empire,(1977) North-Holland Pub. Co
  • translated into Spanish asCarlomagno y el imperio carolingio,Unión Tipográfica Editorial Hispano Americana (1955)
• Études sur l'administration de Rome au Moyen Âge (751-1252),(1972) Multigrafica Editrice
• À travers l'histoire du Moyen âge,(1950) - Presses universitaires de France

References

• S. Woolf, "Europe and its Historians"Contemporary European History(2003), 12: 323-337 Cambridge University Press
• Edward R. Tannenbaum "French Scholarship in Modern European History: New Developments since 1945"The Journal of Modern History,Vol. 29, No. 3 (Sep., 1957), pp. 246–252JSTOR
• Mélanges d'histoire du Moyen âge, dédiés à la mémoire de Louis Halphen:Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1951.

External links

• Media related toLouis Halphenat Wikimedia Commons
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• Works by or about Louis Halphenat theInternet Archive
• Biographical note/Publications(in French)
• Id.(in French)